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WordPress Plugin – DZone Voting Button


DZone Voting Button simply inserts DZone’s voting button into your post. Its pretty customizable and is very simple to configure. It works out of the box, I should say and the default configuration would suffice for most of the users.

Visit the plugin on wordpress plugin directory.

Table of contents

  1. Features list
  2. Installation
  3. FAQs
  4. Screenshots
  5. Donate



Feature List:

  • Choose to display on posts, pages, frontpage or any of its combination.
  • Shortcode support
  • 3 predefined positions
  • 2 different button styles
  • Set style of div tag surrounding the button
  • Compatibility Mode



Installation:

Installation is same as other wordpress plugins.

  • Download the plugin from here
  • Upload the plugin folder to /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  • Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  • You can either choose to configure it from Settings->DZone Button or leave the defaults which would pretty much be good for most of the people.



FAQs

  • What is display page settings?

    You can choose on which pages the voting button should be displayed. You can uncheck “Display the button on the front page (home)” to not display it on frontpage.
    Then it will just display on pages and posts.
    The description is pretty straightforward and I don’t think anyone would need any further explanation

  • What does position settings do?

    You can choose where to display the button in your content. Should it be before the content, after the content or both before and after.

  • What does globally enabled shortcode do?

    Suppose you unchecked all 3 display page settings so that the button doesn’t appear anywhere but you still want the
    shortcodes to work, globally enabled shortcodes would do the exact thing. Only selecting ‘Enabled’ would not make the
    shortcodes work on disabled display pages.

  • What does the styling do?

    You can use CSS styles that surround the div containing the button. This allows you to style most of the things about the button like
    alignment – left or right or center, margins etc.

  • What about button styles? What does it do?

    You can choose to types of buttons to display from. You can check those out here.

  • What does compatibility mode do?

    This plugins break the some themes due to the javascript nature. You can enable compatibility mode to display the iframe instead of javascript.
    This is only recommended for those who have problems with the plugin breaking their theme.



Screenshots:


This is a screenshot with the following settings:
Position: Before
Styling:

float: right; margin-left: 10px;

Button style: Tall


This is a screenshot with the following settings:
Position: After
Styling:

float: left;

Button style: Wide



Donate:

Show your support by donating me. Even $1 will encourage me to keep updating the plugin with new features.



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